The Music Stops – The Empty Chair

                          [Photo Source: Google online images – Musical Chairs]

(5 Nov 2011 -   The place where I once felt a sense of family and belonging, has sat empty for decades.  Time moved on for the others playing the Musical Game, while I waited and wasted my Life hoping and hurting for my "Turn".  dht)

The Empty Chair --

changes through the years –

through births and deaths –

to be filled with a different set

of family members.

The Waste –

Decades come and gone –

Thanksgivings, Christmases, Birthdays, Anniversaries –

when the chairs

of family members

gathered together sat empty.

All the years when there –

could have been –

should have been –

a Family.

The Music Stops –

and the chair occupants change

in a kaleidoscope

of ever changing sequence

of musical chairs –

while My chair sits empty.

 

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr - 2011]